Lehigh ISE faculty member receives NSF award for research in quantum computing optimization

We are please to annouce that Xiu Yang, Associate Professor at Lehigh ISE, has received a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) award as part of a collaborative research project titled "Collaborative Research: Noise-Aware Optimization Algorithms for Hybrid Quantum Computing." The project, funded through NSF's Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) Computational Mathematics program, will run from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029.

Lehigh researchers uncover unexpected motion in drug-delivery robots

One day, tiny swimming robots may travel through the human body to deliver drugs. The medication would target only areas of need—chemotherapy drugs for a tumor, for example—avoiding healthy tissue and minimizing side effects. A research team led by Ebru Demir, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, with collaborators On Shun Pak (Santa Clara University) and Roberto Zenit (Brown University), is studying how tiny robots move through bodily fluids. They recently published a paper in the journal Applied Physics Letters detailing new foundational insights.

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